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Reason #578504357 I love my boy: "Maybe you can write about Merlin and Arthur being gay seaweed farmers in the Philippines."
Maybe I can, babe. Maybe I can.
Have a Dreamwidth invite code: JYVWG658CZ73WAAAD6YC. There's some community on DW where you can offer your extra codes, but most of them have all sorts of conditions. You got people going like, "I'll give you a code if you make me John/Rodney fanart!" or like, "I'll give you a code if you speak Esperanto!" or like, "If I give you a code, you MUST friend me back." So, whatevs.
I've been meaning to do this for a while: here is a RAR file of 13 instrumental songs of varying genres. Unlike my fanmixes, the songs aren't preset into an ordered playlist, but I sort of like
1. Professor Longhair, "Big Chief"
A funk song that rocks out, or a rock song that funks up? You tell me! Just don't forget to dance.
2. Yellow Hammer, "Lazy"
An atmospheric electronic piece from the Ocean's 12 soundtrack. God, how much do I love the Ocean's soundtracks? SO MUCH, guys. So much.
3. Alex C, "Count It Out"
An atmospheric jazzy piece that splices together samples from Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" and Erik Satie's "Gymnopedies No. 1".
4. Afro Celt Sound Sound System, "Dark Moon, High Tide"
The band name is hint enough to tell you what the song might sound like. It's from the Gangs of New York soundtrack, from the part in the movie where Johnny points out to Amsterdam the gangs of Five Points for the first time. The Gangs of New York soundtrack is another soundtrack that is also ridiculously good.
5. RJD2, "Ghostwriter"
Hip-hop. I first heard this song as someone's ringtone. It samples Elliott Smith!
6. Lamb, "Angelica"
A soaring remix of Debussy's "Clair de Lune". It was between this and David Holmes's remix of it (called "Tess", from the Ocean's 11 soundtrack, but this mix already has something from the Ocean's soundtracks, so).
7. Asena, "Ritm Oryantal"
Just the percussion. I think it's Turkish? I think it's for belly-dancing.
8. Kaki King, "Gay Sons of Lesbian Mothers"
Kaki King is crazy inventive with how she uses the acoustic guitar. This is not the best showcase of her crazy skills, but it is one of the Kaki King songs that I like listening to the most.
9. Combustible Edison, "Vertigogo"
Lounge music on drugs. "But Lass!" you say. "This is not instrumental. Someone is singing words!" Are they really?
10. Biréli Lagrène, "Minor Swing"
The second coming of Django Reinhardt. Triplets of Belleville-ish.
11. Nickel Creek, "First and Last Waltz"
Melancholy guitar/mandolin thingum that was gonna be on the Peter/Susan mix, but I dunno, instrumentals kinda feel like cheating when making a fanmix.
12. "Yapong"
The music for the Yapong dance, which is not so much a traditional Betawi dance, as it is based on the traditional Betawi dance. The song and dance was actually created in 1970 by some guy called Bagong Kussudiardjo.
13. Sufjan Stevens, "Year of the Dog"
Atmospheric electronic piece from his black-sheep album, 'Enjoy Your Rabbit'.
Enjoy!
Livejournal has begun sending me notices that my paid account is about to run out. I think the best way to commemorate this tragic end is to do that icon meme where you write drabbles about the characters in your adjacent icons, since after July 19 they'll be gone anyway. Watch this space for drabbles about the following things, hopefully:
a) Edmund learns shadow puppetry
b) Merlin and his unicorn end up in Manila, possibly working a calesa by the bay
c) Pulp Fiction fusion starring Morgana as Mia Wallace and Merlin as Vincent Vega
d) Lucy in Wonderland hanging out with Alice and the Caterpillar
e) something about Morgana and the mafia
f) and then there's Gwen/Susan, and Camelot OT4 + Jadis, and Pendragons + Peter&Susan, I don't even know where to begin holy shit. Maybe I want to write about Arthur Pendragon trying to figure out a troublesome Hungarian phrasebook, or Edmund and Susan fighting zombies. WHO KNOWS.
Maybe I can, babe. Maybe I can.
Have a Dreamwidth invite code: JYVWG658CZ73WAAAD6YC. There's some community on DW where you can offer your extra codes, but most of them have all sorts of conditions. You got people going like, "I'll give you a code if you make me John/Rodney fanart!" or like, "I'll give you a code if you speak Esperanto!" or like, "If I give you a code, you MUST friend me back." So, whatevs.
I've been meaning to do this for a while: here is a RAR file of 13 instrumental songs of varying genres. Unlike my fanmixes, the songs aren't preset into an ordered playlist, but I sort of like
1. Professor Longhair, "Big Chief"
A funk song that rocks out, or a rock song that funks up? You tell me! Just don't forget to dance.
2. Yellow Hammer, "Lazy"
An atmospheric electronic piece from the Ocean's 12 soundtrack. God, how much do I love the Ocean's soundtracks? SO MUCH, guys. So much.
3. Alex C, "Count It Out"
An atmospheric jazzy piece that splices together samples from Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" and Erik Satie's "Gymnopedies No. 1".
4. Afro Celt Sound Sound System, "Dark Moon, High Tide"
The band name is hint enough to tell you what the song might sound like. It's from the Gangs of New York soundtrack, from the part in the movie where Johnny points out to Amsterdam the gangs of Five Points for the first time. The Gangs of New York soundtrack is another soundtrack that is also ridiculously good.
5. RJD2, "Ghostwriter"
Hip-hop. I first heard this song as someone's ringtone. It samples Elliott Smith!
6. Lamb, "Angelica"
A soaring remix of Debussy's "Clair de Lune". It was between this and David Holmes's remix of it (called "Tess", from the Ocean's 11 soundtrack, but this mix already has something from the Ocean's soundtracks, so).
7. Asena, "Ritm Oryantal"
Just the percussion. I think it's Turkish? I think it's for belly-dancing.
8. Kaki King, "Gay Sons of Lesbian Mothers"
Kaki King is crazy inventive with how she uses the acoustic guitar. This is not the best showcase of her crazy skills, but it is one of the Kaki King songs that I like listening to the most.
9. Combustible Edison, "Vertigogo"
Lounge music on drugs. "But Lass!" you say. "This is not instrumental. Someone is singing words!" Are they really?
10. Biréli Lagrène, "Minor Swing"
The second coming of Django Reinhardt. Triplets of Belleville-ish.
11. Nickel Creek, "First and Last Waltz"
Melancholy guitar/mandolin thingum that was gonna be on the Peter/Susan mix, but I dunno, instrumentals kinda feel like cheating when making a fanmix.
12. "Yapong"
The music for the Yapong dance, which is not so much a traditional Betawi dance, as it is based on the traditional Betawi dance. The song and dance was actually created in 1970 by some guy called Bagong Kussudiardjo.
13. Sufjan Stevens, "Year of the Dog"
Atmospheric electronic piece from his black-sheep album, 'Enjoy Your Rabbit'.
Enjoy!
Livejournal has begun sending me notices that my paid account is about to run out. I think the best way to commemorate this tragic end is to do that icon meme where you write drabbles about the characters in your adjacent icons, since after July 19 they'll be gone anyway. Watch this space for drabbles about the following things, hopefully:
a) Edmund learns shadow puppetry
b) Merlin and his unicorn end up in Manila, possibly working a calesa by the bay
c) Pulp Fiction fusion starring Morgana as Mia Wallace and Merlin as Vincent Vega
d) Lucy in Wonderland hanging out with Alice and the Caterpillar
e) something about Morgana and the mafia
f) and then there's Gwen/Susan, and Camelot OT4 + Jadis, and Pendragons + Peter&Susan, I don't even know where to begin holy shit. Maybe I want to write about Arthur Pendragon trying to figure out a troublesome Hungarian phrasebook, or Edmund and Susan fighting zombies. WHO KNOWS.
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Camelot OT4 + Jadis? I WANT TO SEE.
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ME TOO. I wonder why it happens. Maybe Jadis is avenging Nimueh? Maybe Morgana and Merlin are fighting her because she has thrust Arthur and Gwen into mortal peril or some crap.
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I like the avenging idea. They could have met via the Underworld (like how Igraine and Tristun are part of Helen, Jack, & Richard's second set of children in
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